Online Library of Liberty

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This site is truly amazing. Hopefully, Textbook Revolution will someday be this complete and easy to use. Instead of trying to summarize it, here is their entire about page:

Our Goal

The purpose of the Online Library of Liberty is to take advantage of the opportunities provided by the internet in the pursuit of Liberty Fund’s educational activities.

Liberty Fund’s Online Library of Liberty makes available at no charge to the public hundreds of full-length classic texts which have contributed to our understanding of the nature of individual liberty, limited and constitutional government, and the free market. The intended audience for this unique collection are scholars, faculty, students, and other members of the public. Access to the collection is completely open and requires no logging on, password, or payment of any kind.

The Collection

The OLL has over 1,000 titles by over 350 authors from Ancient Sumeria to the present day in the following disciplines:

The OLL is made up of a number of sub-collections of titles:

Study Aids

The books can be read on their own or in conjunction with numerous study aids such as biographical essays on key authors (J.S. Mill, F.A. Hayek), bibliographical essays on key concepts (the idea of Progress, natural law), and course syllabi (classics in the history of political thought).
Guides to the Authors

Every author has a biography page with information about their life and work and a list of their online titles. The authors are conveniently grouped by historical period (e.g. Ancient Rome, the 18thC) and into schools of thought. The latter brings together authors who shared particular intellectual interests or who were writing in the same historical period, such as the Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthmen, the Founding Fathers of the American constitution, and the Scottish Enlightenment.

Guides to the Titles

Every title has a table of contents page with options to view the book in multiple formats (facsimile PDF, HTML or E-Book) or in smaller sections (e.g. chapters). The titles are grouped by discipline, intellectual debates (Religious Toleration, the French Revolution), topics (the Rights of Women, the Laws of War), and other interesting collections (Liberty Fund’s Natural Law and Enlightenment series). Under “Intellectual Debate” we bring together titles that were part of an important intellectual debate, e.g. Edmund Burke’s critique of the French Revolution and the many replies this prompted (by Paine, Wollstonecraft, Godwin). Multiple and conflicting points of view are presented so that each text can be better seen in its intellectual and historical context.

Multiple Formats

Wherever possible, all titles are provided in three different formats:

Special Collections

Many of the books published by Liberty Fund are also available online. Of particular scholarly significance are the following:

The People Involved

The Online Library of Liberty is designed and built by the following individuals and companies:

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